Oregon State Standards for Arts Education: Grade 7

OR.1. Arts Education: Create, Present and Perform: Apply ideas, techniques and processes in the arts. Create, present and perform works of art.

1.1. Use essential elements and organizational principles to create, present and/or perform works of art for a variety of purposes.

1.1.1. Select and combine essential elements and organizational principles to achieve a desired effect when creating, presenting and/ or performing works of art.

OR.2. Arts Education: Create, Present and Perform: Apply ideas, techniques and processes in the arts. Apply the use of ideas, techniques and problem solving to the creative process and analyze the influence that choices have on the result.

2.1. Explore and describe the use of ideas, techniques, and problem solving in the creative process (e.g., planning, choice of medium, choice of tools, analysis and revision) and identify the impact of choices made.

2.1.1. Describe the creative process used, and the effects of the choices made, when combining ideas, techniques, and problem solving to produce one's work.

OR.3. Arts Education: Create, Present and Perform: Apply ideas, techniques and processes in the arts. Express ideas, moods and feelings through the arts and evaluate how well a work of art expresses one's intent.

3.1. Create, present and/or perform a work of art that demonstrates an idea, mood or feeling by using essential elements and organizational principles, and describe how well the work expresses one's intent.

3.1.1. Create, present and/or perform a work of art by controlling essential elements and organizational principles to express an intended idea, mood or feeling.

OR.4. Arts Education: Create, Present and Perform: Apply ideas, techniques and processes in the arts. Evaluate one's own work, orally and in writing.

4.1. Critique and communicate about one's own work, orally and in writing.

4.1.1. Critique the artistic choices made in creating a work of art and their impact on the aesthetic effect, orally and in writing.

OR.5. Arts Education: Aesthetics and Criticism: Respond to and analyze works of art, based on essential elements, organizational principles and aesthetic criteria. Apply critical analysis to works of art.

5.1. Apply knowledge of essential elements, organizational principles and aesthetic criteria to the analysis of works of art, and identify how the elements and principles contribute to the aesthetic effect.

5.1.1. Use knowledge of essential elements, organizational principles and aesthetic criteria to describe works of art and identify how the elements and principles contribute to the aesthetic effect.

OR.6. Arts Education: Aesthetics and Criticism: Respond to and analyze works of art, based on essential elements, organizational principles and aesthetic criteria. Respond to works of art and give reasons for preferences.

6.1. Respond to works of art, giving reasons for preferences and using terminology that conveys knowledge of the arts.

6.1.1. Describe personal preferences for works of art using aesthetic criteria and identify how essential elements and organizational principles contribute to the aesthetic effect.

OR.7. Arts Education: Aesthetics and Criticism: Respond to and analyze works of art, based on essential elements, organizational principles and aesthetic criteria. Understand the interrelationships among art forms.

7.1. Describe how essential elements and organizational principles from various arts disciplines can be integrated in a work of art and identify how they contribute to the aesthetic effect, overall idea and impact of the work.

7.1.1. Explain the distinctive ways that essential elements and organizational principles from various arts disciplines are used in an integrated work of art and identify their impact on that work.

OR.8. Arts Education: Historical and Cultural Perspectives: Understand the relationship of works of art to their social, historical and cultural contexts, and the influence of the arts on individuals, communities and cultures. Understand how events and conditions influence the arts.

8.1. Explain the influence of events and conditions on works of art.

8.1.1. Distinguish the influence of events and conditions on works of art.

OR.9. Arts Education: Historical and Cultural Perspectives: Understand the relationship of works of art to their social, historical and cultural contexts, and the influence of the arts on individuals, communities and cultures. Distinguish works of art from different societies, time periods and cultures.

9.1. Distinguish works of art from different societies, time periods and cultures, emphasizing their common and unique characteristics.

9.1.1. Identify and relate works of art from different societies, time periods and cultures, emphasizing their common and unique characteristics.

OR.10. Arts Education: Historical and Cultural Perspectives: Understand the relationship of works of art to their social, historical and cultural contexts, and the influence of the arts on individuals, communities and cultures. Understand how the arts can reflect the environment and personal experiences within a society or culture, and apply to one's own work.

10.1. Explain how a work of art reflects the artist's environment and personal experience within a society or culture, and apply to one's own work.

10.1.1. Explain how works of art from around the world reflect the artist's environment, society and culture.

OR.11. Arts Education: Historical and Cultural Perspectives: Understand the relationship of works of art to their social, historical and cultural contexts, and the influence of the arts on individuals, communities and cultures. Understand the place of the arts within, and their influences on, society.

11.1. Explain how the arts serve a variety of personal, professional, practical, economic, community and cultural needs.

11.1.1. Explain how the arts serve a variety of purposes, needs and values in different communities and cultures.

11.2. Describe how the arts can influence individuals, communities and cultures.

11.2.1. Explain the influence of the arts on individuals, communities and cultures in various time periods.